Word of the Day:
hexagonal
What It Means
Having six edges, or having a cross-section in the form of a hexagon.
Having three equal axes which cross at 60° angles, and an unequal axis which crosses the others at 90° angle.
Nuts in engineering are generally hexagonal.
Hexagonal in Context
“If we just plopped down a dot for every observation we’d end up with an undifferentiated black blob, so the weathergami technique visualizes frequency of temperature pairs: we divide the chart area into a fine hexagonal grid, and then color each hexagon according to how many daily observations fall...”
Did You Know?
From hexagon + -al. Piecewise doublet of sexagonal.
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